Training

This one tool can help you set big goals, move past setbacks, and defeat your inner critic

Three trail athletes share their best cross-training tips on when, why, and how to incorporate other sports into your routine

Going fast on downhill trails takes some courage, and a fine-tuned set of mental skills. Here’s how to use your mind to run faster downhill on trails.

We know meditation and visualization exercises benefit our mental health. Could they also support our physical bodies?

Here’s how pro runners and medical experts weigh in on this debate

Modern gadgets tell us more about our physiology and recovery needs than ever before, but how might this constant data bath actually work against our training?

For races that require multiple overnights, here are some science-backed sleep strategies to help runners maximize performance on multi-day events

The latest research suggests that muscle oxygen can detect exercise thresholds, with no blood required

Researchers present new findings on mental fatigue, mental training, and the importance of your surroundings

Focusing on being positive, calm and purposeful can help you reach the summit of small hills and big mountains

The questionnaire screened for Female and Male Athlete Triad risk factors, while also asking athletes about their mental health.

They don’t necessarily save energy, but a new study suggests they might save your legs

How to manage this ongoing challenge for trail and ultrarunners

Embracing science-based training ideologies is the best way to develop aerobic fitness and improve performance in endurance sports.

Tips from some of the best Masters runners around on staying healthy and enjoying the process for years to come.

To optimize your health or supercharge your training, you sometimes need to look beyond the lab

This viral social media movement focuses on consistency over intensity, and it might help you recommit to a running routine

Mountain running involves more risks than a jaunt around your neighborhood trails. Here’s how to navigate and mitigate risks so that you can make informed decisions in consequential terrain.

Ankle injuries are common in trail running, here’s how to prevent them

Time for a six-month check-in! Here’s what the data says about how athletes are sticking to their goals in 2023.

A trail running therapist shares her tips for using mindfulness to race and train better

Tips on how to train and race in muggy and hot conditions

This avid runner wore his GPS watch 24 hours a day for one month, performing every single workout it suggested

Four experienced runners and coaches share their biggest mistakes and lessons learned in trail and ultrarunning

There are both healthy and harmful ways to get away from it all, psychologists point out

Trendy recovery gimmicks are advertised everywhere, but professional trail runners know it’s all about prioritizing the basics.

Tips on how you can guard against the most common overuse injuries.

For the past 100 years, real-world and lab experiments interacted across continents to create our current understanding of training theory. We can learn a lot about our future by understanding our evolutionary past.

Injury to the Achilles tendon can be long-lasting. Here's how to diagnose, treat, and prevent it.

It’s mountain adventure season! Here’s what experts say about staying safe up high.

Researchers look back on the lessons from 25 years of “live high, train low.”

These joints are essential for all of your outdoor activities. These movements will keep them functional and healthy.

Frequent injuries—and the pain that comes with them—can actually improve with time on the trails.

When you consistently stress the body and the mind, you change your chemical makeup

A science-led look at how heat acclimation, hydration, and cooling strategies can help you improve your performance when the temperature rises.

Some doctors are now prescribing physical activity for mental health. Here's why.

Physical fatigue, muscle soreness, and age greatly impact post-race recovery and sleep patterns.

Many endurance athletes become so regimented that they forget to listen to their bodies. Here’s how you can get back in touch with your body.

Our annual Western States 100 statistics celebration is here! Prepare yourself for data that might add some fun context to the 2023 viewing experience.

Women are vastly underrepresented in scientific research. This wearable company wants to change that.

Strava data scientists compiled numbers from Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run finishers, from 2018 to 2022, to help us investigate patterns behind successful finish times. Here’s what they found. 

The future of coaching and how trail running presents a unique challenge for artificial intelligence.

These five red flags might be keeping you from running faster

First there was altitude training. Then it was heat training. Now it’s… pollution training?

How to address common foot ailments and injuries in trail running

Some athletes are turning to the prescription drug to regulate their weight - here’s why experts say that’s dangerous.

Here’s how to maximize the benefits of that “hurts so good” feeling

The good news: If we can harness the power of the peak-end rule, we can actually enhance our training.

Plus, how you can test the range of motion of this often-forgotten joint

This 10-minute strength routine combines elements of lifting and mobility to make the hamstrings, glutes, and quads ready for the hardest runs.

In-race data collected during the world championships sheds new light on how top endurance athletes avoid overheating

We asked experts what to consider before you hit the pavement

Plyometrics can make you a more efficient runner, and it turns out they don’t need to be complicated or risky

In her new series for Women's Running, seasoned non-runner Dimity McDowell invites you to meet the heartfelt challenge to stop running.

Bulking up? Only lifting heavy? Avoiding soreness? How is your strength routine (0r lack thereof) holding your trail running back.

Erratic, joy-filled exercise could make you a fitter—and happier—athlete.

We crunched the numbers from hundreds of thousands of Strava uploads, to see how athletes running in different marathons train differently, and why the Boston field is so speedy.

There’s no precise answer, but there are cues to find out what’s best for you.

New data finds that endurance- or speed-oriented muscle fibers don’t determine how you respond to strength training

Our basic biology can steer us toward bad habits and compulsive behavior. Overcoming these pitfalls requires effort and discipline.

New studies confirm that spending time outside can ease physical symptoms

Is your heart-rate high even on easy runs? Aerobic Deficiency Syndrome might explain why. Here’s how to fix it.

Armed with research, a new app is increasing accessibility to post-partum rehab for runner mothers on their journey back from childbirth.

So-called “augmented feedback” can offer both information and motivation. A new study tries to separate the effects.

Training, tools, and techniques vary. What you need to know to choose a physical therapist versus a chiropractor.

Understanding your heart rate can be helpful to calibrate your perceived exertion, especially on easy and steady runs. This simple method is imperfect, but can be very useful for a general understanding of training intensities.

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Age may be just a number—but so is your weekly mileage.

How to use this stretchy, therapeutic tape to effectively reduce pain and support muscles, tendons, and ligaments (almost) anywhere on your body.

How to best care for your body to keep doing the outdoor activities you love

For years, this elite runner, coach, and surgeon specializing in lower extremity injuries treated hundreds of runners. Until it was her turn to be sidelined.

Expert strength running coach Jason Fitzgerald wants us to keep our easy runs easy, but not forget the importance of workouts 

Athletes of all levels have considered whether their choice of birth control might influence how they train, recover, and perform. But the answer is complicated. Here’s what you need to know.

A perfectly designed training program might aim to have ideal intensity distributions. But what happens to a perfect program when you add hills? The answer to that question can lead to fitness breakthroughs... or collapses.

Stuck in an adventure rut? Here’s the best advice our editorial team has on living adventurously.

These little powerhouses not only help fuel our training, but they define the exact ways our bodies respond to the training we do. New data says mitochondrial check ups could even help with the future of training and life in general.

Double threshold days and lactate meters have propelled Jakob Ingebrigtsen and others to the top. Should the rest of us follow suit?

It's one thing to think about a workout; it's another to actually do it. Here's how to make sure workout brain doesn't convince you to quit.

Your arms are dropping lower on long runs, or your shoulders are tight and sore afterwards. Sound familiar? This is a problem that can be fixed with this weight training circuit for runners.